"There is no binary division to be made……" — Michel Foucault
"There is no binary division to be made between what one says and what one does not say; we must try to determine the different ways of not saying things."
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Michel Foucault
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109 Quotes by Michel Foucault
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Chance does not speak essentially through words nor can it be seen in their convolution. It is the eruption of…
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To seek in the great accumulation of the already-said the text that resembles "in advance" a later text, to ransack…
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Truth is not by nature free-nor error servile-its production is thoroughly imbued with relations of power.
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It might be said that all knowledge is linked to the essential forms of cruelty.
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The lyricism of marginality may find inspiration in the image of the outlaw, the great social nomad, who prowls on…
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In its function, the power to punish is not essentially different from that of curing or educating.
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People can tolerate two homosexuals they see leaving together, but the next day they're smiling, holding hands, tenderly embracing one…
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Madness is the absolute break with the work of art; it forms the constitutive moment of abolition, which dissolves in…
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I wasn't always smart, I was actually very stupid in school [T]here was a boy who was very attractive who…
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I belong to that generation who, as students, had before their eyes, and were limited by, a horizon consisting of…
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What makes power hold good, what makes it accepted, is simply the fact that it doesn't only weigh on us…
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It's not a matter of emancipating truth from every system of power (which would be a chimera, for truth is…
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More Binary Quotes
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Think binary. When matter meets antimatter, both vanish, into pure energy. But both existed; I mean, there was a condition…
— John Updike
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I see the player piano as the grandfather of the computer, the ancestor of the entire nightmare we live in,…
— William Gaddis
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Unity can only be manifested by the Binary. Unity itself and the idea of Unity are already two.
— Gautama Buddha
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Masculinity is part of a binary and requires its opposite, since, in the absence of femininity, masculinity would have no…
— Sheila Jeffreys
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Object-oriented programming aficionados think that everything is an object.... this [isn't] so. There are things that are objects. Things that…
— Alexander Stepanov
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There's a sense of productivity which cripples us terribly. We either have to be doing something worthwile or not. We…
— Frederick Lenz
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Chair or no chair: a binary relation. But the vicissitudes of moving the body around are infinite. You never know…
— Sarah Manguso
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Everything is bilateral in the domain of thought. Ideas are binary. Janus is the myth of criticism and the symbol…
— Honore de Balzac
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I don't think there's anything unique about human intellience. All the nuerons in the brain that make up perceptions and…
— Bill Gates
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Any sufficiently crisp question can be answered by a single binary digit-0 or 1, yes or no.
— Carl Sagan
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I'm a very binary person in a bad way where it's like everything is either totally great or totally awful.
— Kathleen Hanna
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When media coverage sets up a binary opposition between 'the accuser' and 'the accused,' there is no longer a victim…
— Jackson Katz
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